Quotes About Upbringing

The restaurant business had a profound effect on my future and that of my two brothers. When we were able to stand on a stool to reach the sink, we washed dishes, and later, when we could see over the counter, we waited tables and managed the cash register.

My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do.

My mother cleaned houses. I washed dishes.

I had a really nice childhood; I had great parents. I earned my allowance by washing dishes, and in the summer I earned my allowance by working in daddy's garden.

I grew up on a small holding, it was a great way to grow up and incredibly idyllic. We had a donkey and Barney the guard dog, geese, a duckling that followed my mum around and used to sit in the washing up bowl.

Myself and my two younger sisters and brother were paid for any chores, whether it was washing pop's car, sweeping the lawn or picking mangoes.

I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.

I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

If anybody asks me where I'm from, my first inclination is to say, 'Washington,' because that's where I grew up meaningfully.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Money was never an issue in our house, mostly because my parents never saw a need to spend much.

We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel.

I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Class is inherited. Calibre is earned.

I didn't have cable growing up. I never saw ESPN or GameDay.

I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

When I was growing up, I didn't know there was a world outside of California.

I grew up working in Canada so everything was low budget.

I wasn't raised inside of Canadian baseball really.

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.